I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization)

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The Algerian journalist Baya Gacemi takes a dangerous political step in writing the “autobiography” of a young Algerian woman whom she met through a program for female sufferers of Islamist violence in Algiers. Nadia, from a small the city in central Algeria that has been especially suffering from the struggle between Islamist terrorists and the authorities, married a local hooligan whose rebellious spirit she found impossible to resist. Unfortunately, her husband used to be already transforming himself from petty criminal to foot soldier after which local emir of the Islamic Action Group. Nadia’s ensuing nightmare lasted over four years. Because of the growing polarization between Islamists and the local government Nadia had turn out to be an outcast reviled by relatives and threatened by neighbors.

By 1996, with Nadia pregnant and destitute and her husband hunted by government agents, her parents expelled her from their home. Gacemi provides a human face to the cultural wars that have torn Algeria and the Middle East apart, revealing the roots of terrorism and the have an effect on of the nightmarish struggle of the ladies caught up in it.

 

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